Yamaha Debuts Soundmondo, A ‘Social Sound-Sharing’ Site For Synths

Yamaha has launched Soundmondo – a new website for Yamaha keyboard owners to share and find synth patches. Initially, Soundmondo supports the recently introduced Yamaha Reface line of mini keyboards. ‘Soundmondo is social sound-sharing for synthesizers,’ says Nate Tschetter, marketing manager, Music Production, Yamaha Corporation of America. ‘Back in the day, synthesizers had patch sheets where… Read More Yamaha Debuts Soundmondo, A ‘Social Sound-Sharing’ Site For Synths

A Video Guide To The Misa NSC-32 Note Sequence Controller

Misa Digital recently introduced the NSC-32 Note Sequence Controller (NCS), ‘a new type of electronic musical instrument’ designed to let you manipulate and cue electronic music sequences live. Now they’ve shared a series of videos that takes an in-depth look at what the NCS-32 can do and offers a comprehensive guide to using the new Note… Read More A Video Guide To The Misa NSC-32 Note Sequence Controller

LINK to MIDI Delivers ‘Incredibly Stable’ MIDI Clock

Developer Alexandernaut (Arpeggionome, Fugue Machiune) has released Link to MIDI – a free iOS app that lets you use Ableton Link to sync MIDI Clock on hardware MIDI devices. Link to MIDI connects Ableton Link to musical devices that support MIDI Clock Sync. Simply join a Link session, connect your MIDI device, and that’s it. Your MIDI device is… Read More LINK to MIDI Delivers ‘Incredibly Stable’ MIDI Clock

The Snyderphonics Birl Electronic Wind Instrument (Sneak Preview)

Jeff Snyder of Snyderphonics, developer of the Manta controller, shared this video preview of the upcoming Birl electronic wind instrument. In the video, Pedro Eustache tries out the Snyderphonics Birl electronic wind instrument prototype. The first part of the video shows him testing out more discrete playing and the ending shows him trying out fingered pitch bends, one… Read More The Snyderphonics Birl Electronic Wind Instrument (Sneak Preview)

EMS Founder Peter Zinovieff On The New Expressive E Touché Controller

2016 NAMM Show: French startup Expressive E will be introducing Touché, described as an ‘innovative controller with unmatched sensitivity’, at the Winter NAMM Show. Today, they shared this teaser video for the Touché, which features EMS founder Peter Zinovieff sharing his impressions of the new controller and sharing his thoughts on why new types of electronic… Read More EMS Founder Peter Zinovieff On The New Expressive E Touché Controller